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4 Nov, 2024

Check out the new books, scores, and recordings added to our shelves since our last Recent Acquisitions post on… read more

1 Nov, 2024

You may remember that back in April we did a display about Earth Music for… read more

16 Oct, 2024

Check out the new books, scores, and recordings added to our shelves since our last Recent Acquisitions post on… read more

26 Sep, 2024

Music scores found in our collection go through a journey before making their way to the Music Library’s shelves ready… read more

Streaming

Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall
Enjoy live concerts in high definition, as well as hundreds of full-length archival recordings, chamber performances, artist interviews, and documentaries.
Ethnographic Sound Archive Online
Over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata.
Medici.tv
Discover medici.tv, the largest online collection of classical music, operas and ballets in the world.
Naxos Music Library
Offers streaming access to more than 88,370 CDs with more than 1,287,700 tracks, standard and rare repertoire.
Qwest TV
Qwest TV features a diverse collection of hundreds of concerts and documentaries, with a focus on Jazz, Soul, Funk, Blues, African music, Latin music, Indian music an

Special Collections

Rare Books Collection
The Olnick Rare Book Room contains over 3,000 volumes exemplifying the history of music, music editing, performing, and printing
Music Archives
Archival material documents the creative activity of composers and performers associated with the University and the city.
Sheet Music Collection
This collection includes songs, piano pieces and method books in sheet music format, mostly issued 1800-1950, plus single examples of choral octavo.
Performance Collection
Musical scores for the major ensembles including choral octavos, band and orchestral score & parts and jazz charts.
Digital Collections
Digitized collections from the Music Library. Includes digital exhibits and digitized collections from our archives, rare books collection, and Canadian sheet music.